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Supposed to be at the park, but is actually on the other side of the town. Supposed to be at baseball, but that ended two hours ago and he went somewhere else without asking. We use the iphone's restrictions and find-my-phone. As one adamant boy has repeatedly pointed out, you can work around that. But if any time the phone cannot be found, the phone or the PS4 is revoked. Very little is worth losing the iphone or PS4. So you don't have to 'cover every possible loophole'.
The iphone is pretty solid. It can't be bypassed very easily, and if they manage to factory reset it, they meet the iphone lock. Then you get set the phone up again the exact same way. I don't understand how some parents get "locked out" of their childs phone.
Should that occur, we'd take it and hand back the LG cosmos. I have a mixed opinion about the situation. I have a friend that gets her phone monitored. Every single text message, every single app, game; every single thing she does. Including Snapchat, she has to save everything she sends to people until her mom checks it. As a child ages, monitoring should become less often and monitoring less things your child does. Not only does she question the horse game, she made me get on the game and made sure it was child friendly. She questioned why I sent pictures to my friends when she clearly knows them , and I felt so sick.
I was scared about what to text to my friends because I was worried my mom would completely start worrying and question me everything. My dad agrees with me having privacy on my phone but my mom will find a way to check my phone if she is actually going to start checking. Whenever I didnt want her to check it, she thought I was doing something inappropriate. Sometimes privacy is healthy to gain independence and learn how to cope with things yourself.
So recently I had been doing some not so good things on my phone. I want doing anything really bad like sending nudes but I had said some questionable things. One day out of nowhere my parents just took my phone. They like took it out of my hands. I was grounded for 2 weeks and lost my phone for 3. I felt my privacy was violated but I understand that they were trying to keep me safe but they did it very hostile and suddenly.
My friends got in trouble. It ruined my life. To make things worse, My parents became helicopter parents. They put secret monitoring apps on my phone. My uncles, cousins, family friends, everyone knew. I have deep resentment for my parents and I fear when they call me upstairs now if fear I will be harshly punished even if I have nothing to hide.
I don't care if my parents monitor my phone.
I don't really do anything worrisome online. But what really irks me is when they take the device at random intervals for "my safety". The constant fear that I will be suddenly stopped and forced to readjust my situation is taking a bigger toll on my day-to-day mood than anything else. I do not understand why parents are monitoring there kids phones. Even though I am currently residing with my mom at this time, i do feel that a few boundary rules should be present.
From the time I received my first cell-phone, she has always complained that I spend too much time on my phone. I could understand her point of view when she was paying for the phone. Now that I am 19 years old, I think that it is just plain ridiculous. I recently made the mistake of creating a Facebook account and then relaying this information to a cousin of mine. When i asked her to keep this information to herself, she said that it was my place to tell my mom, not hers.
However, she called my mom and told her anyway. Which resulted in my only being allowed to use my cell-phone at school, until we discussed the situation with my father. Since i am paying the phone bill, I feel that this is completely intrusive and hurtful. Although he may be some-what disappointed, I don't mind talking with m dad about such things. What does bother me is when she talks to him first and gives her side of the story, making me look like the bad person. I began to lose trust in my mother at a very young age. She would say that she was going to do things with me, and then come up with an excuse when it didn't happen.
Also, she would promise that i would be spanked for something I did wrong, but sometimes didn't follow through. Even now, I don't trust her much at all.
She is constantly saying what i should do, and how I should do it. Even helping her with things that she should know how to do for herself. But if they are older and you suspect that something bad is taking place, explain to them why you want to monitor their devices. Don't just do it because you are the parent and "It's your responsibility". Children are a lot smarter these days than you may think. This is why i hide some things from my mom to this day, because i know that she is prone to over-reacting and telling my business to her friends, or whoever she deems necessary.
Don't correct your child ren for something and then boast to your friends about what you did. This is not a constant competition of who is the best parent, or how big and bad parents may think that they are. You have to be patient and, most of all, develop a trust between you and your child. Doing this will prevent the need for your children to want to hide things from you. If a child feels they need to hide something from you, ask yourself, where did I go wrong. Since we are all human, it is possible. My mom checks my phone and my laptop for no reason sometimes she does it without telling me.
She looks through texts and phone calls and contacts just to find something to be mad about. Its pretty obvious she doesn't trust me on my stuff and I know she knows her parenting is bad so she doesn't trust me. Guess what there are always ways to get around it She even listens at my door a few days ago I saw her through the crack of me door listening..
My parentts do not bother me with this garbage. I can bypass any spyware. When I was 11, I wanted to check my email in a public place. I didn't have a phone, so I asked my mom if I could use hers. My mom, sensing an opportunity, let me log in and asked me to sign in with my school email too. But soon, I started noticing responses to emails I'd been sent that were from my account, but I didn't send them.
Around that time, my mom also started reading my actual mail. I'd find opened envolopes on the kitchen table that were adressed to me. There was nothing suspicious about the emails and the mail my mom read.
When I confronted her about it, my mom said she had a right to read my mail. When I set up an Instagram account about a month ago, my mom made me accept her follow request. Not only that, she started following everyone I follow so she can see what I see on Instagram. I decided to hide my Instagram Story from her so that I'd be comfortable saying what I wanted.
I have a private account, and I only accept people I know, my mom is the only person who can see my account, who I don't want to. After another failed attempt at convincing my mom to not read my emails, I started using a secret email to talk to my friends. My parents knew I had the email, but I told them I'd set it up so I can watch Hetalia on youtube, which is age restricted.
They were okay with that, but they don't know I use that account to email people, so they don't moniter it. When I asked my mom why she still feels the need to moniter my email, she said it was so she could make sure I wasn't being sent anything inappropreate. At 14, I think that's unnessascary. I get the online safety talk every year at school for the past 9 years, and I know to delete an email if it has anything inappropriate.
In the 3 years I've had my email, I never had to deal with anything like that. Parents, don't spy on your kids without good reason, everyone deserves privacy, and if you break your kid's trust, they might start going behind your back, like I did. I think that a contract that both the parents and child signs as to what to expect when using a mobile phone that the parents are paying for is not too much to ask.
As for privacy -- it should be agreed upon before the start of the contract. I will not deceive my kid but expect that they meet us on mutually agreed-upon terms. Parents will always violate that contract. Because it IS too much to ask for. It's almost like y'all are having kids just to spy on us. It happens sooner or later, and it won't scar them seeing to adults engaging in sexual intercourse. It'll scar them if they see YOU engaging in sexual intercourse with your partner. Some way, there phone is their privacy. As your children grow older, they begin to become more independent and privacy becomes a bigger issue where boundaries and lines start to become clearer.
If you have reason to suspect, you should still let them know but go in a little deeper. Just stop thinking you can do whatever you want and not get caught. Teens know much more than you think, also, the icloud based apps do not actually work for the most part and the apps that are installed locally usually require a jailbreak, jailbreaking is a very bad idea because it opens your phone to viruses and could potentially brick the phone.
Apple will actually refuse service if they find out your phone is jailbroken. Even if you proceed to do this, we will be able to tell. Also, rooting depending on the manufacturer may void your warranty, while the new samsung phones are almost impossible to root, and reflashing the stock ROM is very difficult for someone who does not know what they are doing most parents. Just accept it, teens will always find ways to outsmart you parents. Stop trying to be sneaky and be upfront about your intentions if you even think spying is a good idea to begin with. If you have a reason to "monitor", please tell your kids why you are doing so.
If your kids are trustworthy and responsible, there is no reason to do this, unless you either didn't or did a really bad job at giving your kid the cyber safety talk. Please somebody kill me. My parents will not stop and my life sucks pretty bad right now. I am having to learn to hack so that I can keep some of my things on my phone private from my mom.
I am constantly having to change my passcode for everything. I have put a lock on my history and social medias.
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Kids need to evolve and learn their parents. I am the master of Duping my parents and I know what they will do in every scenario. My parents lack in consistency and do not enforce often. When they do search me it is usually because they're mad. I am working on a fingerprint or voice thing that I can put on my phone.
This makes it so that if you leave your phone with your parents or home alone, you're invincible. What they do the other times is an attempt to force you to give them access threatening your sports, passions, hobbies, and even friends. You, kids, need to show that you have nothing to lose.
The TV, your phone, and your video games is their best weapon. They hold it over you every time as they have complete control over it. Never argue or show emotion because it simply shows your parents how much you care about those things. Just shrug and accept it. It is up to you if you want to be good to have those things all the time or punish your parents by purposely being bad and difficult in situations of conflict. Im currently on the second option. So you choose what to do and dont be afraid to stand up to your parents or make a plan to lock your privacy. All you kids need to evolve and protect yourselves from the old people.
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Why we need teen phone monitoring apps The easiest and best relationship-like parents can have with their children is the truth-based one. Teen cell phone monitoring is good for: Teaching safe online-habits and the value of limits in a digital world; Protect from inappropriate content, such as violence, pornography or gambling; Prevent distractions on other important child responsibilities as schoolwork, for example.
Best 5 teen cell phone monitoring apps To help you, we have handpicked some of the best 5 teen cell phone monitoring apps. Spyzie Teen Phone Monitoring Spyzie is one of the most complete monitoring softwares on the market, being able to track all activities on a cellphone. This GPS-centric locator app aims to be a bit more social than the other that are available in the Play Store. While it let you track family members as they go about their daily routine, it also encourages you to chat with them via a in-built mess anger and to share lists and calendars.
Apart from that, you get the standard locator app features: It can monitor texted messages, installed apps, call logs, web history, contacts and even give you access to deleted messages from Tinder, WhatsApp or Kik. The TeenSafe app features some really lousy reviews from disheartened parents who regret installing the app. The app does it job, but in doing so it might jeopardize the relationship with your child.
So before downloading and installing the app, take a minute to really consider whether you really need to be spying on your kid.